Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I got myself a few commissions — did I tell you I was thinking of going freelance ? ’ |
2 | I moved it a little way away . |
3 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
4 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
5 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
6 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
7 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
8 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
9 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
10 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
11 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
12 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
13 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
14 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
15 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
16 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
17 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
18 | And erm we er I gave him a few tips on what to revise on |
19 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
20 | shepherds pie yesterday and I did them a few chips with it as well . |
21 | After all , I had nothing a few weeks ago . ’ |
22 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
23 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
24 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
25 | So it 's very likely she told you a few fibs . |
26 | When at last she got into bed she allowed herself a few angry tears , then brushed them furiously away . |
27 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
28 | she had them a few month 's old did n't she ? |
29 | WE TOLD you a few weeks back that multi-million pound striker Marco Gabbiadini was on the way out at Derby . |
30 | I must admit , we joined them a few moments later for a well-earned cuppa after our day 's exertions . |